Martha Coakley's Convictions

Dorothy Rabinowitz is a Wall Street Journal journalist who single-handedly called a halt to the nursery school workers sex abuse witch hunts that were widespread in the 1980s. The hysteria didn't end with the McMartin trial in Redondo Beach, CA, that lasted seven years, but with Rabinowitz's dogged pursuit of the truth. Her book, No Crueler Tyrannies, was the result of her investigation of the false accusations and hysterical prosecutions. She knows fraudulent prosecution when she sees it and especially the prosecution of the Amiraults in Massachusetts.

Which is why she has followed Martha Coakley's career as a self-described child abuse prosecutor. And Rabinowitz is not impressed with the Democrat candidate for Senator's history with such cases.

It wasn't until the 1990s when the college-educated psychiatrists and psychologists who were prompting their patients to recover patently false mrmories were sued that the questionable practice of creating "false memories" was dropped.